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¹The LORD spoke to Moses:

²“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: These are my appointed times, the times of the LORD that you will proclaim as sacred assemblies.

³“Work may be done for six days, but on the seventh day there is to be a Sabbath of complete rest, a sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; it is a Sabbath to the LORD wherever you live.

⁴“These are the LORD’s appointed times, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times.

⁵The Passover to the LORD comes in the first month, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the month.

⁶The Festival of Unleavened Bread to the LORD is on the fifteenth day of the same month. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.

⁷On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any daily work.

⁸You are to present a fire offering to the LORD for seven days. On the seventh day there will be a sacred assembly; do not do any daily work.”

⁹The LORD spoke to Moses:

¹⁰“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you and reap its harvest, you are to bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest.

¹¹He will present the sheaf before the LORD so that you may be accepted; the priest is to present it on the day after the Sabbath.

¹²On the day you present the sheaf, you are to offer a year-old male lamb without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD.

¹³Its grain offering is to be four quarts of fine flour mixed with oil as a fire offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma, and its drink offering will be one quart of wine.

¹⁴You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or any new grain until this very day, and until you have brought the offering to your God. This is to be a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you live.

¹⁵“You are to count seven complete weeks starting from the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the presentation offering.

¹⁶You are to count fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD.

¹⁷Bring two loaves of bread from your settlements as a presentation offering, each of them made from four quarts of fine flour, baked with yeast, as firstfruits to the LORD.

¹⁸You are to present with the bread seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD, with their grain offerings and drink offerings, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

¹⁹You are also to prepare one male goat as a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old as a fellowship sacrifice.

²⁰The priest will present the lambs with the bread of firstfruits as a presentation offering before the LORD; the bread and the two lambs will be holy to the LORD for the priest.

²¹On that same day you are to make a proclamation and hold a sacred assembly. You are not to do any daily work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live throughout your generations.

²²When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap all the way to the edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the resident alien; I am the LORD your God.”

²³The LORD spoke to Moses:

²⁴“Tell the Israelites: In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you are to have a day of complete rest, commemoration, and trumpet blasts  — a sacred assembly.

²⁵You must not do any daily work, but you must present a fire offering to the LORD.”

²⁶The LORD again spoke to Moses:

²⁷“The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You are to hold a sacred assembly and practice self-denial; you are to present a fire offering to the LORD.

²⁸On this particular day you are not to do any work, for it is a Day of Atonement to make atonement for yourselves before the LORD your God.

²⁹If any person does not practice self-denial on this particular day, he is to be cut off from his people.

³⁰I will destroy among his people anyone who does any work on this same day.

³¹You are not to do any work. This is a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you live.

³²It will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must practice self-denial. You are to observe your Sabbath from the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening.”

³³The LORD spoke to Moses:

³⁴“Tell the Israelites: The Festival of Shelters to the LORD begins on the fifteenth day of this seventh month and continues for seven days.

³⁵There is to be a sacred assembly on the first day; you are not to do any daily work.

³⁶You are to present a fire offering to the LORD for seven days. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present a fire offering to the LORD. It is a solemn gathering; you are not to do any daily work.

³⁷“These are the LORD’s appointed times that you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for presenting fire offerings to the LORD, burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its designated day.

³⁸These are in addition to the offerings for the LORD’s Sabbaths, your gifts, all your vow offerings, and all your freewill offerings that you give to the LORD.

³⁹“You are to celebrate the LORD’s festival on the fifteenth day of the seventh month for seven days after you have gathered the produce of the land. There will be complete rest on the first day and complete rest on the eighth day.

⁴⁰On the first day you are to take the product of majestic trees — palm fronds, boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook  — and rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.

⁴¹You are to celebrate it as a festival to the LORD seven days each year. This is a permanent statute for you throughout your generations; celebrate it in the seventh month.

⁴²You are to live in shelters for seven days. All the native-born of Israel must live in shelters,

⁴³so that your generations may know that I made the Israelites live in shelters when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.”

⁴⁴So Moses declared the LORD’s appointed times to the Israelites.

¹The LORD spoke to Moses:

²“Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil from crushed olives for the light, in order to keep the lamp burning regularly.

³Aaron is to tend it continually from evening until morning before the LORD outside the curtain of the testimony in the tent of meeting. This is a permanent statute throughout your generations.

⁴He must continually tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand in the LORD’s presence.

⁵“Take fine flour and bake it into twelve loaves; each loaf is to be made with four quarts.

⁶Arrange them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure gold table before the LORD.

⁷Place pure frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread and a fire offering to the LORD.

⁸The bread is to be set out before the LORD every Sabbath day as a permanent covenant obligation on the part of the Israelites.

⁹It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place, for it is the holiest portion for him from the fire offerings to the LORD; this is a permanent rule.”

¹⁰Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father was among the Israelites. A fight broke out in the camp between the Israelite woman’s son and an Israelite man.

¹¹Her son cursed and blasphemed the Name, and they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith, a daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan. )

¹²They put him in custody until the LORD’s decision could be made clear to them.

¹³Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

¹⁴“Bring the one who has cursed to the outside of the camp and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole community stone him.

¹⁵And tell the Israelites: If anyone curses his God, he will bear the consequences of his sin.

¹⁶Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD must be put to death; the whole community is to stone him. If he blasphemes the Name, he is to be put to death, whether the resident alien or the native.

¹⁷“If a man kills anyone, he must be put to death.

¹⁸Whoever kills an animal is to make restitution for it, life for life.

¹⁹If any man inflicts a permanent injury on his neighbor, whatever he has done is to be done to him:

²⁰fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Whatever injury he inflicted on the person, the same is to be inflicted on him.

²¹Whoever kills an animal is to make restitution for it, but whoever kills a person is to be put to death.

²²You are to have the same law for the resident alien and the native, because I am the LORD your God.”

²³After Moses spoke to the Israelites, they brought the one who had cursed to the outside of the camp and stoned him. So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses.

¹The LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai:

²“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you, the land will observe a Sabbath to the LORD.

³You may sow your field for six years, and you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce for six years.

⁴But there will be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land in the seventh year, a Sabbath to the LORD: you are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard.

⁵You are not to reap what grows by itself from your crop, or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. It is to be a year of complete rest for the land.

⁶Whatever the land produces during the Sabbath year can be food for you — for yourself, your male or female slave, and the hired worker or alien who resides with you.

⁷All of its growth may serve as food for your livestock and the wild animals in your land.

⁸“You are to count seven sabbatical years, seven times seven years, so that the time period of the seven sabbatical years amounts to forty-nine.

⁹Then you are to sound a trumpet loudly in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month; you will sound it throughout your land on the Day of Atonement.

¹⁰You are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim freedom in the land for all its inhabitants. It will be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and each of you to his clan.

¹¹The fiftieth year will be your Jubilee; you are not to sow, reap what grows by itself, or harvest its untended vines.

¹²It is to be holy to you because it is the Jubilee; you may only eat its produce directly from the field.

¹³“In this Year of Jubilee, each of you will return to his property.

¹⁴If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, do not cheat one another.

¹⁵You are to make the purchase from your neighbor based on the number of years since the last Jubilee. He is to sell to you based on the number of remaining harvest years.

¹⁶You are to increase its price in proportion to a greater amount of years, and decrease its price in proportion to a lesser amount of years, because what he is selling to you is a number of harvests.

¹⁷You are not to cheat one another, but fear your God, for I am the LORD your God.

¹⁸“You are to keep my statutes and ordinances and carefully observe them, so that you may live securely in the land.

¹⁹Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat, be satisfied, and live securely in the land.

²⁰If you wonder: ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we don’t sow or gather our produce?’

²¹I will appoint my blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years.

²²When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest. You will be eating this until the ninth year when its harvest comes in.

²³“The land is not to be permanently sold because it is mine, and you are only aliens and temporary residents on my land.

²⁴You are to allow the redemption of any land you occupy.

²⁵If your brother becomes destitute and sells part of his property, his nearest relative may come and redeem what his brother has sold.

²⁶If a man has no family redeemer, but he prospers and obtains enough to redeem his land,

²⁷he may calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man he sold it to, and return to his property.

²⁸But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in the possession of its purchaser until the Year of Jubilee. It is to be released at the Jubilee, so that he may return to his property.

²⁹“If a man sells a residence in a walled city, his right of redemption will last until a year has passed after its sale; his right of redemption will last a year.

³⁰If it is not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house in the walled city is permanently transferred to its purchaser throughout his generations. It is not to be released on the Jubilee.

³¹But houses in settlements that have no walls around them are to be classified as open fields. The right to redeem such houses stays in effect, and they are to be released at the Jubilee.

³²“Concerning the Levitical cities, the Levites always have the right to redeem houses in the cities they possess.

³³Whatever property one of the Levites can redeem  — a house sold in a city they possess — is to be released at the Jubilee, because the houses in the Levitical cities are their possession among the Israelites.

³⁴The open pastureland around their cities may not be sold, for it is their permanent possession.

³⁵“If your brother becomes destitute and cannot sustain himself among you, you are to support him as an alien or temporary resident, so that he can continue to live among you.

³⁶Do not profit or take interest from him, but fear your God and let your brother live among you.

³⁷You are not to lend him your silver with interest or sell him your food for profit.

³⁸I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.

³⁹“If your brother among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, you must not force him to do slave labor.

⁴⁰Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he may work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

⁴¹Then he and his children are to be released from you, and he may return to his clan and his ancestral property.

⁴²They are not to be sold as slaves, because they are my servants that I brought out of the land of Egypt.

⁴³You are not to rule over them harshly but fear your God.

⁴⁴Your male and female slaves are to be from the nations around you; you may purchase male and female slaves.

⁴⁵You may also purchase them from the aliens residing with you, or from their families living among you — those born in your land. These may become your property.

⁴⁶You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But concerning your brothers, the Israelites, you must not rule over one another harshly.

⁴⁷“If an alien or temporary resident living among you prospers, but your brother living near him becomes destitute and sells himself to the alien living among you, or to a member of the resident alien’s clan,

⁴⁸he has the right of redemption after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him.

⁴⁹His uncle or cousin may redeem him, or any of his close relatives from his clan may redeem him. If he prospers, he may redeem himself.

⁵⁰The one who purchased him is to calculate the time from the year he sold himself to him until the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years. It will be set for him like the daily wages of a hired worker.

⁵¹If many years are still left, he must pay his redemption price in proportion to them based on his purchase price.

⁵²If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he will calculate and pay the price of his redemption in proportion to his remaining years.

⁵³He will stay with him like a man hired year by year. A resident alien is not to rule over him harshly in your sight.

⁵⁴If he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children are to be released at the Year of Jubilee.

⁵⁵For the Israelites are my servants. They are my servants that I brought out of the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.

¹“Do not make idols for yourselves, set up a carved image or sacred pillar for yourselves, or place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the LORD your God.

²Keep my Sabbaths and revere my sanctuary; I am the LORD.

³“If you follow my statutes and faithfully observe my commands,

⁴I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

⁵Your threshing will continue until grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have plenty of food to eat and live securely in your land.

⁶I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to frighten you. I will remove dangerous animals from the land, and no sword will pass through your land.

⁷You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword.

⁸Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand; your enemies will fall before you by the sword.

⁹“I will turn to you, make you fruitful and multiply you, and confirm my covenant with you.

¹⁰You will eat the old grain of the previous year and will clear out the old to make room for the new.

¹¹I will place my residence among you, and I will not reject you.

¹²I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people.

¹³I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, so that you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to live in freedom.

¹⁴“But if you do not obey me and observe all these commands —

¹⁵if you reject my statutes and despise my ordinances, and do not observe all my commands — and break my covenant,

¹⁶then I will do this to you: I will bring terror on you — wasting disease and fever that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.

¹⁷I will turn against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even though no one is pursuing you.

¹⁸“But if after these things you will not obey me, I will proceed to discipline you seven times for your sins.

¹⁹I will break down your strong pride. I will make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,

²⁰and your strength will be used up for nothing. Your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.

²¹“If you act with hostility toward me and are unwilling to obey me, I will multiply your plagues seven times for your sins.

²²I will send wild animals against you that will deprive you of your children, ravage your livestock, and reduce your numbers until your roads are deserted.

²³“If in spite of these things you do not accept my discipline, but act with hostility toward me,

²⁴then I will act with hostility toward you; I also will strike you seven times for your sins.

²⁵I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a pestilence among you, and you will be delivered into enemy hands.

²⁶When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and ration out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

²⁷“And if in spite of this you do not obey me but act with hostility toward me,

²⁸I will act with furious hostility toward you; I will also discipline you seven times for your sins.

²⁹You will eat the flesh of your sons; you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

³⁰I will destroy your high places, cut down your shrines, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless bodies of your idols; I will reject you.

³¹I will reduce your cities to ruins and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.

³²I also will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to live there will be appalled by it.

³³But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins.

³⁴“Then the land will make up for its Sabbath years during the time it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and make up for its Sabbaths.

³⁵As long as it lies desolate, it will have the rest it did not have during your Sabbaths when you lived there.

³⁶“I will put anxiety in the hearts of those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a wind-driven leaf will put them to flight, and they will flee as one flees from a sword, and fall though no one is pursuing them.

³⁷They will stumble over one another as if fleeing from a sword though no one is pursuing them. You will not be able to stand against your enemies.

³⁸You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.

³⁹Those who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away because of their iniquity; they will also waste away because of their fathers’ iniquities along with theirs.

⁴⁰“But when they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers — their unfaithfulness that they practiced against me, and how they acted with hostility toward me,

⁴¹and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies — and when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they make amends for their iniquity,

⁴²then I will remember my covenant with Jacob. I will also remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

⁴³For the land abandoned by them will make up for its Sabbaths by lying desolate without the people, while they make amends for their iniquity, because they rejected my ordinances and abhorred my statutes.

⁴⁴Yet in spite of this, while they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or abhor them so as to destroy them and break my covenant with them, since I am the LORD their God.

⁴⁵For their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God; I am the LORD.”

⁴⁶These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws the LORD established between himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.

¹The LORD spoke to Moses:

²“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When someone makes a special vow to the LORD that involves the assessment of people,

³if the assessment concerns a male from twenty to sixty years old, your assessment is fifty silver shekels measured by the standard sanctuary shekel.

⁴If the person is a female, your assessment is thirty shekels.

⁵If the person is from five to twenty years old, your assessment for a male is twenty shekels and for a female ten shekels.

⁶If the person is from one month to five years old, your assessment for a male is five silver shekels, and for a female your assessment is three shekels of silver.

⁷If the person is sixty years or more, your assessment is fifteen shekels for a male and ten shekels for a female.

⁸But if one is too poor to pay the assessment, he is to present the person before the priest and the priest will set a value for him. The priest will set a value for him according to what the one making the vow can afford.

⁹“If the vow involves one of the animals that may be brought as an offering to the LORD, any of these he gives to the LORD will be holy.

¹⁰He may not replace it or make a substitution for it, either good for bad, or bad for good. But if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be holy.

¹¹“If the vow involves any of the unclean animals that may not be brought as an offering to the LORD, the animal must be presented before the priest.

¹²The priest will set its value, whether high or low; the price will be set as the priest makes the assessment for you.

¹³If the one who brought it decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value.

¹⁴“When a man consecrates his house as holy to the LORD, the priest will assess its value, whether high or low. The price will stand just as the priest assesses it.

¹⁵But if the one who consecrated his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it will be his.

¹⁶“If a man consecrates to the LORD any part of a field that he possesses, your assessment of value will be proportional to the seed needed to sow it, at the rate of fifty silver shekels for every five bushels of barley seed.

¹⁷If he consecrates his field during the Year of Jubilee, the price will stand according to your assessment.

¹⁸But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest will calculate the price for him in proportion to the years left until the next Year of Jubilee, so that your assessment will be reduced.

¹⁹If the one who consecrated the field decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and the field will transfer back to him.

²⁰But if he does not redeem the field or if he has sold it to another man, it is no longer redeemable.

²¹When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will be holy to the LORD like a field permanently set apart; it becomes the priest’s property.

²²“If a person consecrates to the LORD a field he has purchased that is not part of his inherited landholding,

²³then the priest will calculate for him the amount of the assessment up to the Year of Jubilee, and the person will pay the assessed value on that day as a holy offering to the LORD.

²⁴In the Year of Jubilee the field will return to the one he bought it from, the original owner.

²⁵All your assessed values will be measured by the standard sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.

²⁶“But no one can consecrate a firstborn of the livestock, whether an animal from the herd or flock, to the LORD, because a firstborn already belongs to the LORD.

²⁷If it is one of the unclean livestock, it can be ransomed according to your assessment by adding a fifth of its value to it. If it is not redeemed, it can be sold according to your assessment.

²⁸“Nothing that a man permanently sets apart to the LORD from all he owns, whether a person, an animal, or his inherited landholding, can be sold or redeemed; everything set apart is especially holy to the LORD.

²⁹No person who has been set apart for destruction is to be ransomed; he must be put to death.

³⁰“Every tenth of the land’s produce, grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.

³¹If a man decides to redeem any part of this tenth, he must add a fifth to its value.

³²Every tenth animal from the herd or flock, which passes under the shepherd’s rod, will be holy to the LORD.

³³He is not to inspect whether it is good or bad, and he is not to make a substitution for it. But if he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute will be holy; they cannot be redeemed.”

³⁴These are the commands the LORD gave Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai.

¹The LORD spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai, on the first day of the second month of the second year after Israel’s departure from the land of Egypt:

²“Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their clans and their fathers’ families, counting the names of every male one by one.

³You and Aaron are to register those who are twenty years old or more by their military divisions — everyone who can serve in Israel’s army.

⁴A man from each tribe is to be with you, each one the head of his ancestral family.

⁵These are the names of the men who are to assist you: Elizur son of Shedeur from Reuben;

⁶Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai from Simeon;

⁷Nahshon son of Amminadab from Judah;

⁸Nethanel son of Zuar from Issachar;

⁹Eliab son of Helon from Zebulun;

¹⁰from the sons of Joseph: Elishama son of Ammihud from Ephraim, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur from Manasseh;

¹¹Abidan son of Gideoni from Benjamin;

¹²Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai from Dan;

¹³Pagiel son of Ochran from Asher;

¹⁴Eliasaph son of Deuel from Gad;

¹⁵Ahira son of Enan from Naphtali.

¹⁶These are the men called from the community; they are leaders of their ancestral tribes, the heads of Israel’s clans.”

¹⁷So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,

¹⁸and they assembled the whole community on the first day of the second month. They recorded their ancestry by their clans and their ancestral families, counting one by one the names of those twenty years old or more,

¹⁹just as the LORD commanded Moses. He registered them in the Wilderness of Sinai:

²⁰The descendants of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,

²¹those registered for the tribe of Reuben numbered 46,500.

²²The descendants of Simeon: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, those registered counting one by one the names of every male twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,

²³those registered for the tribe of Simeon numbered 59,300.

²⁴The descendants of Gad: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting the names of those twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,

²⁵those registered for the tribe of Gad numbered 45,650.

²⁶The descendants of Judah: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting the names of those twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,

²⁷those registered for the tribe of Judah numbered 74,600.

²⁸The descendants of Issachar: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting the names of those twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,

²⁹those registered for the tribe of Issachar numbered 54,400.

³⁰The descendants of Zebulun: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting the names of those twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,

³¹those registered for the tribe of Zebulun numbered 57,400.

³²The descendants of Joseph: The descendants of Ephraim: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting the names of those twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,

³³those registered for the tribe of Ephraim numbered 40,500.

³⁴The descendants of Manasseh: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting the names of those twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,

³⁵those registered for the tribe of Manasseh numbered 32,200.

³⁶The descendants of Benjamin: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting the names of those twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,

³⁷those registered for the tribe of Benjamin numbered 35,400.

³⁸The descendants of Dan: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting the names of those twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,

³⁹those registered for the tribe of Dan numbered 62,700.

⁴⁰The descendants of Asher: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting the names of those twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,

⁴¹those registered for the tribe of Asher numbered 41,500.

⁴²The descendants of Naphtali: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting the names of those twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,

⁴³those registered for the tribe of Naphtali numbered 53,400.

⁴⁴These are the men Moses and Aaron registered, with the assistance of the twelve leaders of Israel; each represented his ancestral family.

⁴⁵So all the Israelites twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in Israel’s army, were registered by their ancestral families.

⁴⁶All those registered numbered 603,550.

⁴⁷But the Levites were not registered with them by their ancestral tribe.

⁴⁸For the LORD had told Moses:

⁴⁹“Do not register or take a census of the tribe of Levi with the other Israelites.

⁵⁰Appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, all its furnishings, and everything in it. They are to transport the tabernacle and all its articles, take care of it, and camp around it.

⁵¹Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to stop at a campsite, the Levites are to set it up. Any unauthorized person who comes near it is to be put to death.

⁵²“The Israelites are to camp by their military divisions, each man with his encampment and under his banner.

⁵³The Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the testimony and watch over it, so that no wrath will fall on the Israelite community.”

⁵⁴The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

¹The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

²“The Israelites are to camp under their respective banners beside the flags of their ancestral families. They are to camp around the tent of meeting at a distance from it:

³Judah’s military divisions will camp on the east side toward the sunrise under their banner. The leader of the descendants of Judah is Nahshon son of Amminadab.

⁴His military division numbers 74,600.

⁵The tribe of Issachar will camp next to it. The leader of the Issacharites is Nethanel son of Zuar.

⁶His military division numbers 54,400.

⁷The tribe of Zebulun will be next. The leader of the Zebulunites is Eliab son of Helon.

⁸His military division numbers 57,400.

⁹The total number in their military divisions who belong to Judah’s encampment is 186,400; they will move out first.

¹⁰Reuben’s military divisions will camp on the south side under their banner. The leader of the Reubenites is Elizur son of Shedeur.

¹¹His military division numbers 46,500.

¹²The tribe of Simeon will camp next to it. The leader of the Simeonites is Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.

¹³His military division numbers 59,300.

¹⁴The tribe of Gad will be next. The leader of the Gadites is Eliasaph son of Deuel.

¹⁵His military division numbers 45,650.

¹⁶The total number in their military divisions who belong to Reuben’s encampment is 151,450; they will move out second.

¹⁷The tent of meeting is to move out with the Levites’ camp, which is in the middle of the camps. They are to move out just as they camp, each in his place, with their banners.

¹⁸Ephraim’s military divisions will camp on the west side under their banner. The leader of the Ephraimites is Elishama son of Ammihud.

¹⁹His military division numbers 40,500.

²⁰The tribe of Manasseh will be next to it. The leader of the Manassites is Gamaliel son of Pedahzur.

²¹His military division numbers 32,200.

²²The tribe of Benjamin will be next. The leader of the Benjaminites is Abidan son of Gideoni.

²³His military division numbers 35,400.

²⁴The total in their military divisions who belong to Ephraim’s encampment number 108,100; they will move out third.

²⁵Dan’s military divisions will camp on the north side under their banner. The leader of the Danites is Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.

²⁶His military division numbers 62,700.

²⁷The tribe of Asher will camp next to it. The leader of the Asherites is Pagiel son of Ochran.

²⁸His military division numbers 41,500.

²⁹The tribe of Naphtali will be next. The leader of the Naphtalites is Ahira son of Enan.

³⁰His military division numbers 53,400.

³¹The total number who belong to Dan’s encampment is 157,600; they are to move out last, with their banners.”

³²These are the Israelites registered by their ancestral families. The total number in the camps by their military divisions is 603,550.

³³But the Levites were not registered among the Israelites, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

³⁴The Israelites did everything the LORD commanded Moses; they camped by their banners in this way and moved out the same way, each man by his clan and by his ancestral family.

¹These are the family records of Aaron and Moses at the time the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.

²These are the names of Aaron’s sons: Nadab, the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

³These are the names of Aaron’s sons, the anointed priests, who were ordained to serve as priests.

⁴But Nadab and Abihu died in the LORD’s presence when they presented unauthorized fire before the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai, and they had no sons. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests under the direction of Aaron their father.

⁵The LORD spoke to Moses:

⁶“Bring the tribe of Levi near and present them to the priest Aaron to assist him.

⁷They are to perform duties for him and the entire community before the tent of meeting by attending to the service of the tabernacle.

⁸They are to take care of all the furnishings of the tent of meeting and perform duties for the Israelites by attending to the service of the tabernacle.

⁹Assign the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they have been assigned exclusively to him from the Israelites.

¹⁰You are to appoint Aaron and his sons to carry out their priestly responsibilities, but any unauthorized person who comes near the sanctuary is to be put to death.”

¹¹The LORD spoke to Moses:

¹²“See, I have taken the Levites from the Israelites in place of every firstborn Israelite from the womb. The Levites belong to me,

¹³because every firstborn belongs to me. At the time I struck down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated every firstborn in Israel to myself, both man and animal. They are mine; I am the LORD.”

¹⁴The LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:

¹⁵“Register the Levites by their ancestral families and their clans. You are to register every male one month old or more.”

¹⁶So Moses registered them in obedience to the LORD as he had been commanded:

¹⁷These were Levi’s sons by name: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

¹⁸These were the names of Gershon’s sons by their clans: Libni and Shimei.

¹⁹Kohath’s sons by their clans were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

²⁰Merari’s sons by their clans were Mahli and Mushi. These were the Levite clans by their ancestral families.

²¹The Libnite clan and the Shimeite clan came from Gershon; these were the Gershonite clans.

²²Those registered, counting every male one month old or more, numbered 7,500.

²³The Gershonite clans camped behind the tabernacle on the west side,

²⁴and the leader of the Gershonite families was Eliasaph son of Lael.

²⁵The Gershonites’ duties at the tent of meeting involved the tabernacle, the tent, its covering, the screen for the entrance to the tent of meeting,

²⁶the hangings of the courtyard, the screen for the entrance to the courtyard that surrounds the tabernacle and the altar, and the tent ropes — all the work relating to these.

²⁷The Amramite clan, the Izharite clan, the Hebronite clan, and the Uzzielite clan came from Kohath; these were the Kohathites.

²⁸Counting every male one month old or more, there were 8,600 responsible for the duties of the sanctuary.

²⁹The clans of the Kohathites camped on the south side of the tabernacle,

³⁰and the leader of the families of the Kohathite clans was Elizaphan son of Uzziel.

³¹Their duties involved the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the sanctuary utensils that were used with these, and the screen  — and all the work relating to them.

³²The chief of the Levite leaders was Eleazar son of Aaron the priest; he had oversight of those responsible for the duties of the sanctuary.

³³The Mahlite clan and the Mushite clan came from Merari; these were the Merarite clans.

³⁴Those registered, counting every male one month old or more, numbered 6,200.

³⁵The leader of the families of the Merarite clans was Zuriel son of Abihail; they camped on the north side of the tabernacle.

³⁶The assigned duties of Merari’s descendants involved the tabernacle’s supports, crossbars, pillars, bases, all its equipment, and all the work related to these,

³⁷in addition to the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, and ropes.

³⁸Moses, Aaron, and his sons, who performed the duties of the sanctuary as a service on behalf of the Israelites, camped in front of the tabernacle on the east, in front of the tent of meeting toward the sunrise. Any unauthorized person who came near it was to be put to death.

³⁹The total number of all the Levite males one month old or more that Moses and Aaron registered by their clans at the LORD’s command was 22,000.

⁴⁰The LORD told Moses: “Register every firstborn male of the Israelites one month old or more, and list their names.

⁴¹You are to take the Levites for me — I am the LORD  — in place of every firstborn among the Israelites, and the Levites’ cattle in place of every firstborn among the Israelites’ cattle.”

⁴²So Moses registered every firstborn among the Israelites, as the LORD commanded him.

⁴³The total number of the firstborn males one month old or more listed by name was 22,273.

⁴⁴The LORD spoke to Moses again:

⁴⁵“Take the Levites in place of every firstborn among the Israelites, and the Levites’ cattle in place of their cattle. The Levites belong to me; I am the LORD.

⁴⁶As the redemption price for the 273 firstborn Israelites who outnumber the Levites,

⁴⁷collect five shekels for each person, according to the standard sanctuary shekel — twenty gerahs to the shekel.

⁴⁸Give the silver to Aaron and his sons as the redemption price for those who are in excess among the Israelites.”

⁴⁹So Moses collected the redemption amount from those in excess of the ones redeemed by the Levites.

⁵⁰He collected the silver from the firstborn Israelites: 1,365 shekels measured by the standard sanctuary shekel.

⁵¹He gave the redemption silver to Aaron and his sons in obedience to the LORD, just as the LORD commanded Moses.

¹The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

²“Among the Levites, take a census of the Kohathites by their clans and their ancestral families,

³men from thirty years old to fifty years old — everyone who is qualified to do work at the tent of meeting.

⁴“The service of the Kohathites at the tent of meeting concerns the most holy objects.

⁵Whenever the camp is about to move on, Aaron and his sons are to go in, take down the screening curtain, and cover the ark of the testimony with it.

⁶They are to place over this a covering made of fine leather, spread a solid blue cloth on top, and insert its poles.

⁷“They are to spread a blue cloth over the table of the Presence and place the plates and cups on it, as well as the bowls and pitchers for the drink offering. The regular bread offering is to be on it.

⁸They are to spread a scarlet cloth over them, cover them with a covering made of fine leather, and insert the poles in the table.

⁹“They are to take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand used for light, with its lamps, snuffers, and firepans, as well as its jars of oil by which they service it.

¹⁰Then they are to place it with all its utensils inside a covering made of fine leather and put them on the carrying frame.

¹¹“They are to spread a blue cloth over the gold altar, cover it with a covering made of fine leather, and insert its poles.

¹²They are to take all the serving utensils they use in the sanctuary, place them in a blue cloth, cover them with a covering made of fine leather, and put them on a carrying frame.

¹³“They are to remove the ashes from the bronze altar, spread a purple cloth over it,

¹⁴and place all the equipment on it that they use in serving: the firepans, meat forks, shovels, and basins — all the equipment of the altar. They are to spread a covering made of fine leather over it and insert its poles.

¹⁵“Aaron and his sons are to finish covering the holy objects and all their equipment whenever the camp is to move on. The Kohathites will come and carry them, but they are not to touch the holy objects or they will die. These are the transportation duties of the Kohathites regarding the tent of meeting.

¹⁶“Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has oversight of the lamp oil, the fragrant incense, the daily grain offering, and the anointing oil. He has oversight of the entire tabernacle and everything in it, the holy objects and their utensils.”

¹⁷Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

¹⁸“Do not allow the Kohathite tribal clans to be wiped out from the Levites.

¹⁹Do this for them so that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy objects: Aaron and his sons are to go in and assign each man his task and transportation duty.

²⁰The Kohathites are not to go in and look at the holy objects as they are covered or they will die.”

²¹The LORD spoke to Moses:

²²“Take a census of the Gershonites also, by their ancestral families and their clans.

²³Register men from thirty years old to fifty years old, everyone who is qualified to perform service, to do work at the tent of meeting.

²⁴This is the service of the Gershonite clans regarding work and transportation duties:

²⁵They are to transport the tabernacle curtains, the tent of meeting with its covering and the covering made of fine leather on top of it, the screen for the entrance to the tent of meeting,

²⁶the hangings of the courtyard, the screen for the entrance at the gate of the courtyard that surrounds the tabernacle and the altar, along with their ropes and all the equipment for their service. They will carry out everything that needs to be done with these items.

²⁷“All the service of the Gershonites, all their transportation duties and all their other work, is to be done at the command of Aaron and his sons; you are to assign to them all that they are responsible to carry.

²⁸This is the service of the Gershonite clans at the tent of meeting, and their duties will be under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

²⁹“As for the Merarites, you are to register them by their clans and their ancestral families.

³⁰Register men from thirty years old to fifty years old, everyone who is qualified to do the work of the tent of meeting.

³¹This is what they are responsible to carry as the whole of their service at the tent of meeting: the supports of the tabernacle, with its crossbars, pillars, and bases,

³²the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, and ropes, including all their equipment and all the work related to them. You are to assign by name the items that they are responsible to carry.

³³This is the service of the Merarite clans regarding all their work at the tent of meeting, under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.”

³⁴So Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of the community registered the Kohathites by their clans and their ancestral families,

³⁵men from thirty years old to fifty years old, everyone who was qualified for work at the tent of meeting.

³⁶The men registered by their clans numbered 2,750.

³⁷These were the registered men of the Kohathite clans, everyone who could serve at the tent of meeting. Moses and Aaron registered them at the LORD’s command through Moses.

³⁸The Gershonites were registered by their clans and their ancestral families,

³⁹men from thirty years old to fifty years old, everyone who was qualified for work at the tent of meeting.

⁴⁰The men registered by their clans and their ancestral families numbered 2,630.

⁴¹These were the registered men of the Gershonite clans. At the LORD’s command Moses and Aaron registered everyone who could serve at the tent of meeting.

⁴²The men of the Merarite clans were registered by their clans and their ancestral families,

⁴³those from thirty years old to fifty years old, everyone who was qualified for work at the tent of meeting.

⁴⁴The men registered by their clans numbered 3,200.

⁴⁵These were the registered men of the Merarite clans; Moses and Aaron registered them at the LORD’s command through Moses.

⁴⁶Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel registered all the Levites by their clans and their ancestral families,

⁴⁷from thirty years old to fifty years old, everyone who was qualified to do the work of serving at the tent of meeting and transporting it.

⁴⁸Their registered men numbered 8,580.

⁴⁹At the LORD’s command they were registered under the direction of Moses, each one according to his work and transportation duty, and his assignment was as the LORD commanded Moses.

¹The LORD instructed Moses:

²“Command the Israelites to send away anyone from the camp who is afflicted with a skin disease, anyone who has a discharge, or anyone who is defiled because of a corpse.

³Send away both male or female; send them outside the camp, so that they will not defile their camps where I dwell among them.”

⁴The Israelites did this, sending them outside the camp. The Israelites did as the LORD instructed Moses.

⁵The LORD spoke to Moses:

⁶“Tell the Israelites: When a man or woman commits any sin against another, that person acts unfaithfully toward the LORD and is guilty.

⁷The person is to confess the sin he has committed. He is to pay full compensation, add a fifth of its value to it, and give it to the individual he has wronged.

⁸But if that individual has no relative to receive compensation, the compensation goes to the LORD for the priest, along with the atonement ram by which the priest will make atonement for the guilty person.

⁹Every holy contribution the Israelites present to the priest will be his.

¹⁰Each one’s holy contribution is his to give; what each one gives to the priest will be his.”

¹¹The LORD spoke to Moses:

¹²“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: If any man’s wife goes astray, is unfaithful to him,

¹³and sleeps with another, but it is concealed from her husband, and she is undetected, even though she has defiled herself, since there is no witness against her, and she wasn’t caught in the act;

¹⁴and if a feeling of jealousy comes over the husband and he becomes jealous because of his wife who has defiled herself — or if a feeling of jealousy comes over him and he becomes jealous of her though she has not defiled herself —

¹⁵then the man is to bring his wife to the priest. He is also to bring an offering for her of two quarts of barley flour. He is not to pour oil over it or put frankincense on it because it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering for remembrance to draw attention to guilt.

¹⁶“The priest is to bring her forward and have her stand before the LORD.

¹⁷Then the priest is to take holy water in a clay bowl, take some of the dust from the tabernacle floor, and put it in the water.

¹⁸After the priest has the woman stand before the LORD, he is to let down her hair and place in her hands the grain offering for remembrance, which is the grain offering of jealousy. The priest is to hold the bitter water that brings a curse.

¹⁹The priest will require the woman to take an oath and will say to her, ‘If no man has slept with you, if you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband’s authority, be unaffected by this bitter water that brings a curse.

²⁰But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, if you have defiled yourself and a man other than your husband has slept with you’ —

²¹at this point the priest will make the woman take the oath with the sworn curse, and he is to say to her — ‘May the LORD make you into an object of your people’s cursing and swearing when he makes your womb shrivel and your belly swell.

²²May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach, causing your belly to swell and your womb to shrivel.’ “And the woman will reply, ‘Amen, Amen.’

²³“Then the priest is to write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water.

²⁴He will require the woman to drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and it will enter her to cause bitter suffering.

²⁵The priest is to take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman, present the offering before the LORD, and bring it to the altar.

²⁶The priest is to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial portion and burn it on the altar. Afterward, he will require the woman to drink the water.

²⁷“When he makes her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her to cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, and her womb will shrivel. She will become a curse among her people.

²⁸But if the woman has not defiled herself and is pure, she will be unaffected and will be able to conceive children.

²⁹“This is the law regarding jealousy when a wife goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s authority,

³⁰or when a feeling of jealousy comes over a husband and he becomes jealous of his wife. He is to have the woman stand before the LORD, and the priest will carry out all these instructions for her.

³¹The husband will be free of guilt, but that woman will bear her iniquity.”

¹The LORD instructed Moses:

²“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When a man or woman makes a special vow, a Nazirite vow, to consecrate himself to the LORD,

³he is to abstain from wine and beer. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or from beer. He must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins.

⁴He is not to eat anything produced by the grapevine, from seeds to skin, during the period of his consecration.

⁵“You must not cut his hair throughout the time of his vow of consecration. He may be holy until the time is completed during which he consecrates himself to the LORD; he is to let the hair of his head grow long.

⁶He must not go near a dead body during the time he consecrates himself to the LORD.

⁷He is not to defile himself for his father or mother, or his brother or sister, when they die, while the mark of consecration to his God is on his head.

⁸He is holy to the LORD during the time of consecration.

⁹“If someone suddenly dies near him, defiling his consecrated head, he must shave his head on the day of his purification; he is to shave it on the seventh day.

¹⁰On the eighth day he is to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

¹¹The priest is to offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to make atonement on behalf of the Nazirite, since he incurred guilt because of the corpse. On that day he is to consecrate his head again.

¹²He is to rededicate his time of consecration to the LORD and to bring a year-old male lamb as a guilt offering. But do not count the initial period of consecration because it became defiled.

¹³“This is the law of the Nazirite: On the day his time of consecration is completed, he is to be brought to the entrance to the tent of meeting.

¹⁴He is to present an offering to the LORD of one unblemished year-old male lamb as a burnt offering, one unblemished year-old female lamb as a sin offering, one unblemished ram as a fellowship offering,

¹⁵along with their grain offerings and drink offerings, and a basket of unleavened cakes made from fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers coated with oil.

¹⁶“The priest is to present these before the LORD and sacrifice the Nazirite’s sin offering and burnt offering.

¹⁷He will also offer the ram as a fellowship sacrifice to the LORD, together with the basket of unleavened bread. Then the priest will offer the accompanying grain offering and drink offering.

¹⁸“The Nazirite is to shave his consecrated head at the entrance to the tent of meeting, take the hair from his head, and put it on the fire under the fellowship sacrifice.

¹⁹The priest is to take the boiled shoulder from the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put them into the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his consecrated head.

²⁰The priest is to present them as a presentation offering before the LORD. It is a holy portion for the priest, in addition to the breast of the presentation offering and the thigh of the contribution. After that, the Nazirite may drink wine.

²¹“These are the instructions about the Nazirite who vows his offering to the LORD for his consecration, in addition to whatever else he can afford; he must fulfill whatever vow he makes in keeping with the instructions for his consecration.”

²²The LORD spoke to Moses:

²³“Tell Aaron and his sons, ‘This is how you are to bless the Israelites. You should say to them,

²⁴“May the LORD bless you and protect you;

²⁵may the LORD make his face shine on you and be gracious to you;

²⁶may the LORD look with favor on you and give you peace.”’

²⁷In this way they will pronounce my name over the Israelites, and I will bless them.”

¹On the day Moses finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed and consecrated it and all its furnishings, along with the altar and all its utensils. After he anointed and consecrated these things,

²the leaders of Israel, the heads of their ancestral families, presented an offering. They were the tribal leaders who supervised the registration.

³They brought as their offering before the LORD six covered carts and twelve oxen, a cart from every two leaders and an ox from each one, and presented them in front of the tabernacle.

⁴The LORD said to Moses,

⁵“Accept these from them to be used in the work of the tent of meeting, and give this offering to the Levites, to each division according to their service.”

⁶So Moses took the carts and oxen and gave them to the Levites.

⁷He gave the Gershonites two carts and four oxen corresponding to their service,

⁸and gave the Merarites four carts and eight oxen corresponding to their service, under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

⁹But he did not give any to the Kohathites, since their responsibility was service related to the holy objects carried on their shoulders.

¹⁰The leaders also presented the dedication gift for the altar when it was anointed. The leaders presented their offerings in front of the altar.

¹¹The LORD told Moses, “Each day have one leader present his offering for the dedication of the altar.”

¹²The one who presented his offering on the first day was Nahshon son of Amminadab from the tribe of Judah.

¹³His offering was one silver dish weighing 3¼ pounds and one silver basin weighing 1¾ pounds, measured by the standard sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

¹⁴one gold bowl weighing four ounces, full of incense;

¹⁵one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

¹⁶one male goat for a sin offering;

¹⁷and two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old, for the fellowship sacrifice. This was the offering of Nahshon son of Amminadab.

¹⁸On the second day Nethanel son of Zuar, leader of Issachar, presented an offering.

¹⁹As his offering, he presented one silver dish weighing 3¼ pounds and one silver basin weighing 1¾ pounds, measured by the standard sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

²⁰one gold bowl weighing four ounces, full of incense;

²¹one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

²²one male goat for a sin offering;

²³and two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old, for the fellowship sacrifice. This was the offering of Nethanel son of Zuar.

²⁴On the third day Eliab son of Helon, leader of the Zebulunites, presented an offering.

²⁵His offering was one silver dish weighing 3¼ pounds and one silver basin weighing 1¾ pounds, measured by the standard sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

²⁶one gold bowl weighing four ounces, full of incense;

²⁷one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

²⁸one male goat for a sin offering;

²⁹and two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old, for the fellowship sacrifice. This was the offering of Eliab son of Helon.

³⁰On the fourth day Elizur son of Shedeur, leader of the Reubenites, presented an offering.

³¹His offering was one silver dish weighing 3¼ pounds and one silver basin weighing 1¾ pounds, measured by the standard sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

³²one gold bowl weighing four ounces, full of incense;

³³one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

³⁴one male goat for a sin offering;

³⁵and two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old, for the fellowship sacrifice. This was the offering of Elizur son of Shedeur.

³⁶On the fifth day Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai, leader of the Simeonites, presented an offering.

³⁷His offering was one silver dish weighing 3¼ pounds and one silver basin weighing 1¾ pounds, measured by the standard sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

³⁸one gold bowl weighing four ounces, full of incense;

³⁹one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

⁴⁰one male goat for a sin offering;

⁴¹and two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old, for the fellowship sacrifice. This was the offering of Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.

⁴²On the sixth day Eliasaph son of Deuel, leader of the Gadites, presented an offering.

⁴³His offering was one silver dish weighing 3¼ pounds and one silver basin weighing 1¾ pounds, measured by the standard sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

⁴⁴one gold bowl weighing four ounces full of incense;

⁴⁵one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

⁴⁶one male goat for a sin offering;

⁴⁷and two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old, for the fellowship sacrifice. This was the offering of Eliasaph son of Deuel.

⁴⁸On the seventh day Elishama son of Ammihud, leader of the Ephraimites, presented an offering.

⁴⁹His offering was one silver dish weighing 3¼ pounds and one silver basin weighing 1¾ pounds, measured by the standard sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

⁵⁰one gold bowl weighing four ounces, full of incense;

⁵¹one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

⁵²one male goat for a sin offering;

⁵³and two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old, for the fellowship sacrifice. This was the offering of Elishama son of Ammihud.

⁵⁴On the eighth day Gamaliel son of Pedahzur, leader of the Manassites, presented an offering.

⁵⁵His offering was one silver dish weighing 3¼ pounds and one silver basin weighing 1¾ pounds, measured by the standard sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

⁵⁶one gold bowl weighing four ounces, full of incense;

⁵⁷one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

⁵⁸one male goat for a sin offering;

⁵⁹and two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old, for the fellowship sacrifice. This was the offering of Gamaliel son of Pedahzur.

⁶⁰On the ninth day Abidan son of Gideoni, leader of the Benjaminites, presented an offering.

⁶¹His offering was one silver dish weighing 3¼ pounds and one silver basin weighing 1¾ pounds, measured by the standard sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

⁶²one gold bowl weighing four ounces, full of incense;

⁶³one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

⁶⁴one male goat for a sin offering;

⁶⁵and two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old, for the fellowship sacrifice. This was the offering of Abidan son of Gideoni.

⁶⁶On the tenth day Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai, leader of the Danites, presented an offering.

⁶⁷His offering was one silver dish weighing 3¼ pounds and one silver basin weighing 1¾ pounds, measured by the standard sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

⁶⁸one gold bowl weighing four ounces, full of incense;

⁶⁹one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

⁷⁰one male goat for a sin offering;

⁷¹and two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old, for the fellowship sacrifice. This was the offering of Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.

⁷²On the eleventh day Pagiel son of Ochran, leader of the Asherites, presented an offering.

⁷³His offering was one silver dish weighing 3¼ pounds and one silver basin weighing 1¾ pounds, measured by the standard sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

⁷⁴one gold bowl weighing four ounces, full of incense;

⁷⁵one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

⁷⁶one male goat for a sin offering;

⁷⁷and two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old, for the fellowship sacrifice. This was the offering of Pagiel son of Ochran.

⁷⁸On the twelfth day Ahira son of Enan, leader of the Naphtalites, presented an offering.

⁷⁹His offering was one silver dish weighing 3¼ pounds and one silver basin weighing 1¾ pounds, measured by the standard sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

⁸⁰one gold bowl weighing four ounces, full of incense;

⁸¹one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

⁸²one male goat for a sin offering;

⁸³and two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old, for the fellowship sacrifice. This was the offering of Ahira son of Enan.

⁸⁴This was the dedication gift from the leaders of Israel for the altar when it was anointed: twelve silver dishes, twelve silver basins, and twelve gold bowls.

⁸⁵Each silver dish weighed 3¼ pounds, and each basin 1¾ pounds. The total weight of the silver articles was 60 pounds measured by the standard sanctuary shekel.

⁸⁶The twelve gold bowls full of incense each weighed four ounces measured by the standard sanctuary shekel. The total weight of the gold bowls was 3 pounds.

⁸⁷All the livestock for the burnt offering totaled twelve bulls, twelve rams, and twelve male lambs a year old, with their grain offerings, and twelve male goats for the sin offering.

⁸⁸All the livestock for the fellowship sacrifice totaled twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty male goats, and sixty male lambs a year old. This was the dedication gift for the altar after it was anointed.

⁸⁹When Moses entered the tent of meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim. He spoke to him that way.

¹The LORD spoke to Moses:

²“Speak to Aaron and tell him: When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps are to give light in front of the lampstand.”

³So Aaron did this; he set up its lamps to give light in front of the lampstand just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

⁴This is the way the lampstand was made: it was a hammered work of gold, hammered from its base to its flower petals. The lampstand was made according to the pattern the LORD had shown Moses.

⁵The LORD spoke to Moses:

⁶“Take the Levites from among the Israelites and ceremonially cleanse them.

⁷Do this to them for their purification: Sprinkle them with the purification water. Have them shave their entire bodies and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.

⁸“They are to take a young bull and its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you are to take a second young bull for a sin offering.

⁹Bring the Levites before the tent of meeting and assemble the entire Israelite community.

¹⁰Then present the Levites before the LORD, and have the Israelites lay their hands on them.

¹¹Aaron is to present the Levites before the LORD as a presentation offering from the Israelites, so that they may perform the LORD’s work.

¹²Next the Levites are to lay their hands on the heads of the bulls. Sacrifice one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to the LORD, to make atonement for the Levites.

¹³“You are to have the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons, and you are to present them before the LORD as a presentation offering.

¹⁴In this way you are to separate the Levites from the rest of the Israelites so that the Levites will belong to me.

¹⁵After that the Levites may come to serve at the tent of meeting, once you have ceremonially cleansed them and presented them as a presentation offering.

¹⁶For they have been exclusively assigned to me from the Israelites. I have taken them for myself in place of all who come first from the womb, every Israelite firstborn.

¹⁷For every firstborn among the Israelites is mine, both man and animal. I consecrated them to myself on the day I struck down every firstborn in the land of Egypt.

¹⁸But I have taken the Levites in place of every firstborn among the Israelites.

¹⁹From the Israelites, I have given the Levites exclusively to Aaron and his sons to perform the work for the Israelites at the tent of meeting and to make atonement on their behalf, so that no plague will come against the Israelites when they approach the sanctuary.”

²⁰Moses, Aaron, and the entire Israelite community did this to the Levites. The Israelites did everything to them the LORD commanded Moses regarding the Levites.

²¹The Levites purified themselves and washed their clothes; then Aaron presented them before the LORD as a presentation offering. Aaron also made atonement for them to cleanse them ceremonially.

²²After that, the Levites came to do their work at the tent of meeting in the presence of Aaron and his sons. So they did to them as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites.

²³The LORD spoke to Moses:

²⁴“In regard to the Levites: From twenty-five years old or more, a man enters the service in the work at the tent of meeting.

²⁵But at fifty years old he is to retire from his service in the work and no longer serve.

²⁶He may assist his brothers to fulfill responsibilities at the tent of meeting, but he must not do the work. This is how you are to deal with the Levites regarding their duties.”

¹In the first month of the second year after their departure from the land of Egypt, the LORD told Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:

²“The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time.

³You must observe it at its appointed time on the fourteenth day of this month at twilight; you are to observe it according to all its statutes and ordinances.”

⁴So Moses told the Israelites to observe the Passover,

⁵and they observed it in the first month on the fourteenth day at twilight in the Wilderness of Sinai. The Israelites did everything as the LORD had commanded Moses.

⁶But there were some men who were unclean because of a human corpse, so they could not observe the Passover on that day. These men came before Moses and Aaron the same day

⁷and said to him, “We are unclean because of a human corpse. Why should we be excluded from presenting the LORD’s offering at its appointed time with the other Israelites?”

⁸Moses replied to them, “Wait here until I hear what the LORD commands for you.”

⁹Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

¹⁰“Tell the Israelites: When any one of you or your descendants is unclean because of a corpse or is on a distant journey, he may still observe the Passover to the LORD.

¹¹Such people are to observe it in the second month, on the fourteenth day at twilight. They are to eat the animal with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;

¹²they may not leave any of it until morning or break any of its bones. They must observe the Passover according to all its statutes.

¹³“But the man who is ceremonially clean, is not on a journey, and yet fails to observe the Passover is to be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORD’s offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.

¹⁴“If an alien resides with you and wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, he is to do it according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the same statute to both the resident alien and the native of the land.”

¹⁵On the day the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony, and it appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until morning.

¹⁶It remained that way continuously: the cloud would cover it, appearing like fire at night.

¹⁷Whenever the cloud was lifted up above the tent, the Israelites would set out; at the place where the cloud stopped, there the Israelites camped.

¹⁸At the LORD’s command the Israelites set out, and at the LORD’s command they camped. As long as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle, they camped.

¹⁹Even when the cloud stayed over the tabernacle many days, the Israelites carried out the LORD’s requirement and did not set out.

²⁰Sometimes the cloud remained over the tabernacle for only a few days. They would camp at the LORD’s command and set out at the LORD’s command.

²¹Sometimes the cloud remained only from evening until morning; when the cloud lifted in the morning, they set out. Or if it remained a day and a night, they moved out when the cloud lifted.

²²Whether it was two days, a month, or longer, the Israelites camped and did not set out as long as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle. But when it was lifted, they set out.

²³They camped at the LORD’s command, and they set out at the LORD’s command. They carried out the LORD’s requirement according to his command through Moses.